WorkLife Law News

Our latest report, Exposed: Discrimination Against Breastfeeding Workers, analyzes breastfeeding legal cases from the last decade to document patterns of discrimination, and analyzes new data on the scope of existing state and federal laws to protect against discrimination. We found that 27.6 million women of childbearing age don’t have the basic protections needed by all breastfeeding workers.

With the help of the Society of Women Engineers, the Center for WorkLife Law produced a comprehensive survey documenting in the real world what social psychologists have long observed in labs: that women and people of color experience workplace hurdles that do not exist for white men.

Black & Latina women spend nearly twice as much time on unpaid household & care work as their male counterparts. The current public health crisis has increased this burden, as school, daycare, & family care all function from the home. #MomsEqualPay

Pay discrimination steals so much from each Black woman across the country. For Black moms, it undermines not only their economic stability, but the financial security of their families and communities. #MomsEqualPay

On #MomsEqualPay Day, we can’t ignore the fact that working from home during the #coronavirus pandemic is a privilege 70% of workers don’t have. Low-wage Black & Latinx employees, already experiencing unfair pay, are least likely to "wfh" & stay employed.